why are we sitting here right now talking about this right now with the senate gone home and congress in there working and the light is on, but few people are at home. why are we doing this? >> there is no good explanation. there's definitely no justification and no excuse for this. this is like, don, when you at the beginning of the year, when you are in school at the beginning of the year and you have been assigned a big project and you leave it to the last night. when i used to do thoo i was punished. if kids behaved the way the congresspeople were, they would be in time-out. if it were the private sector, they'd all be fired. no excuse. and the only solution i would tell you lies with us, the american people, and with us, the voters. demanding that they start working together. and actually coming up with something. we cannot continue to have the spectacles every few months. it is like making sausage. >> can we talk about the optics of this, maria, because many people say, i hear you up there, guys, don, and this is a republican and democratic problem, but we are here h because the